The Standard – New Andre Balazs Hotel in New York by Polshek Partnership Architects
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The Standard – Recently opened New York branch of the Standard Hotels offers some brazen contradictions. Designed by Polshek Partnership design partner Todd Schliemann for boutique hotel impresario André Balazs, the robust concrete structure lightly spans the High Line park, and while the hotel’s form is thoroughly contemporary. Completed in 2009, eighteen new floors and 204,500 sq. m., 337-room hotel is located in the Meatpacking district of Manhattan, a bustling along the west of the City. The design celebrates the possibilities and difficulties of interaction with the high line, an abandoned well, the line of railroad rates, which was designed as a linear park to new audiences.
The Standard calls its urban context, by contrast, the unique blend of architectural and structural concepts in a complex and changing urban fabric. Sculpted pillars, which form clearly separate construction of the orthogonal grid of streets, facing the construction of fifty-seven feet from the street, allowing the industrial landscape horizontally scaled to pass underneath and natural light from entering the street. The juxtaposition of building materials – cast in place, a board formed concrete and glass – reflects the character of New York City, the grainy quality of the concrete contrasts with the smoothness of glass. The grid of concrete is a delicate framework for water extremely transparent white glass, both materials in the unified plan of continuous curtain wall.
The building’s monumentality comes from a massive structural system that raises the tower 57 feet off the ground: a concrete pier (5 feet thick by 50 feet wide and 60 feet tall) paired with five 2-foot-by-6-foot columns. Fourteen-foot-deep steel trusses allow the hotel to straddle the High Line, thanks to a floating easement. At ground level, the architects created a nuanced entry experience. Sequences of public spaces (the entrance plaza) and semi-public ones (dining patios for the restaurant, lounge, and beer garden) spill out from the base of the hotel.
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